Tag Archives: Gap 8 Defense

I finally finished my Defensive playbook for my 5th grade pee wee football team. After reading and watching Dave Cisar’s Winning Football Series and Coach Reed’s Winning Youth Football book, I focused on the 6-2 Wide, 4-4 Stack and Gap 8 defensive schemes for my 2008 little league tackle team. I am not going to go into a lot of assignment detail today but here are diagrams of the base defensive formations.

6-2 Wide Defense – Diagram

4-4 Stack Defense – Diagram

Gap 8 Defense Diagram

You can see how easy the transition to each even front defense will be for our youth football players. I plan on using the 6-2 Wide as our main defensive formation. We will move to the 4-4 on long yardage situations and the GAP 8 or GAM on short yardage situations and or when we are inside the 10 yard line.

Over the next several weeks, I will outline the assignments for each defense. If you have any history with these defenses leave me a comment. Just click on the comments button below this post. Thanks!

Good luck this season and remember, Play for Fun and Winning is Funner!

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Coach Parker

Coach Parker has been coaching youth sports since 1994. In 1994, he was a member of the Plano Sports Authority Football Coaching Staff of the Year.
Coach Parker grew up in Texas; living, breathing and playing football. Go Dallas Cowboys! He started playing football in 3rd grade and played through HS. His High School Offensive Coordinator and Linebacker's coach, was Ron Schroeder, one of the winningest Coaches in Texas Football History.
Coach Parker also played Racquetball and Handball for Texas A&M club teams and was a certified racquetball instructor.